Kanban EV

Choose departments: after the first day, move to an empty workstation in a different department. Workers act from top to bottom. In two-player games, you cannot move into Sandra’s current department. Administration also lets you work in one other department.

Shifts and training: workstations normally provide 2 or 3 shifts, or 1 or 2 in Administration. Spend banked shifts to work up to four shifts in a day. One training shift advances one space; books provide extra training in the department without costing shifts. Certification unlocks abilities.

Acquire supplies: in Design, each shift takes an available design if you have desk space. In Logistics, each shift collects any number of parts from one warehouse, subject to storage. Books, Parts Vouchers, and Banked Shifts cannot be used on the turn gained.

Assembly and R&D: each eligible, distinct part supplied moves cars along the assembly line; a complete set is not required before movement. Claiming a car requires a matching model design, empty garage, and shifts based on track position. Upgrading uses a matching design and part, grants the upgrade-space benefit, and earns 2 PP.

Sandra and weeks: from day two, Sandra moves in workstation order to the next available department below her and evaluates all players tied for least training there. In default harsh mode, having at most two relevant achievements (certifications in Administration) triggers a loss of 1 PP plus 1 for each banked shift below five. Her Administration task scores each garage car for all players’ upgrades to its model plus your own Tested Designs of that model, then advances the Week marker.

Meetings: when the Pace Car reaches or passes a striped space, hold a meeting after everyone finishes working. Each player must reveal exactly one Performance Goal from hand. Speech tokens occupy the highest empty speech icon, whose number caps how many achievements score. Consecutive passes by everyone end the meeting; a player who passed can participate again before that happens.

End and scoring: when one of the Week and Production Cycle markers reaches at least space two and the other at least space three, finish the day, including any weekly scoring and meeting. Spend Speech tokens on final goals, then score leftover shifts and items, cars, training ranks, and Tested Designs. Break ties by cars, Tested Designs, then Banked Shifts; remaining ties share victory.